PLANS for up to 100 homes off Laburnum Way in Loughborough have been submitted to planners.

Bloor Homes has lodged an outline planning application with Charnwood Borough Council for the development, which it says will help contribute to the borough’s housing need.

The application follows a planning exhibition held by the developer at Rainbows Hospice in Loughborough in May last year, just months after plans to build 50 homes off Bramcote Road were approved by the Secretary of State following a planning appeal by Charles Church Ltd.

Loughborough South West Action Group (LSWAG), which fought against the Bramcote Road appeal, warned at the time that nearby fields would be next.

In a consultation statement attached with the application, Bloor says the exhibition was attended by 117 people.

Of those, it says 62 people said they believed it was the wrong location, with three saying it was a “good location for development, if the development is sensitive to the surrounding area”.

Haddon Way Residents’ Association, which started a petition against the homes when the exhibition was held, is encouraging residents to make their views known on the council’s planning portal.

Matthew O’Callaghan, Labour’s prospective parliamentary candidate for Loughborough, said: “This site would never have been considered if the Core Strategy had been in place and shows how vulnerable the council is to applications from developers for sites that would have previously been protected from development.”